The Bards of Bedlam Filk Library

The Children of Cynagua

Lyrics by Colin MacLear

(To the Tune of: Chocolate Chip Cookies)

Well, I came into Cynagua for to fight a Mistlands war
They told me we’d destroy them, drop their pikemen by the score
We’d eat their shields for breakfast, have their axes for dessert
They might even all surrender, so they’d none of them get hurt

          But the Children of Cynagua are as brave as they can be
          It’s hell to kill just one of them, don’t mention two or three
          And those Children of Cynagua, they put the Mists to rout
          But we’ll feast and drink together, ‘cause that’s what we’re all about

Now it’s true they were outnumbered when the day did first begin
And one or two encounters there our folks, hard fought, could win
So the Mistlands evened out the sides, in kindness so they thought
But found they could not pay off on the challenge that they’d bought

          Because the Children of Cynagua are as brave as they can be
          It’s hell to kill just one of them, don’t mention two or three
          And those Children of Cynagua, they put the Mists to rout
          But we’ll feast and drink together, ‘cause that’s what we’re all about

So why in that last verse would I go call the Mistlands “they”
You know that its my homeland, and its there my heart may stay
But I guess in those first battles my dear prince got hit too hard
‘Cause when he sent those fighters o’er, he also sent his Bard!

          And the Children of Cynagua are as brave as they can be
          It’s hell to kill just one of them, don’t mention two or three
          And those Children of Cynagua, they put the Mists to rout
          But we’ll feast and drink together, ‘cause that’s what we’re all about

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